Something that's been brought home to me by my 8yo doing virtual school is the absolute pointlessness of test grades: a thread.
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I accepted this as a student because nobody ever suggested an alternative, but as a parent now, whenever I sit down to work with my kid, it just feels totally ass-backwards that finalising a grade is prioritised over fixing any deficiencies that grade revealed. Why?
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The further my kid progresses through the education system, the greater the disconnect I feel with the idea that I'm meant to support it uncritically, and the more I feel that teenage!me, who ended school *furious* with how the secondary system worked, was correct.
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All this is a way of saying: as a millennial who lived through the massive dissonant shift between What School Was Meant To Prepare You For vs How Employment Works Now, my baseline faith that a specific mode of schooling is Vital To My Child's Future is, uh, nil.
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